Breaking news

Touching lives in the most simple of ways

[Johannesburg, 4 December 2014] -
Since December 2013, Saidia Furaha children's home has been the main recipient of Imperial Health Sciences Kenya CSR initiative. Over the past six months, IHS Kenya has been donating broken pallets to the home for cooking, as the home uses firewood to prepare the children's meals. The donation of the broken pallets saves the home a pretty penny, as it spends a considerable amount of money in obtaining firewood.Saidia Furaha children's home also creatively established that by disassembling the pallets, it can craft desks for the pupils.Although crafting the pallets as desks was an innovative way of utilising what many would have considered junk, Saidia Furaha children's home has now constructed two new classrooms using the broken pallets to expand the classroom space. Its inventiveness went as far as removing the nails used to hold the pallets together and using the same nails as part of the construction, which included the doors and windows of the classrooms. [Full Story.]